About me

The Builder

I'm an Iban Dayak from Bintulu, Sarawak, and I've been building things for as long as I can remember.

It started with LEGO. I'd beg my parents for new sets not because I wanted the finished product, but because I loved the process. Piece by piece, following the manual, until a tank sat in front of me. That feeling of making something from nothing stuck with me in a way I couldn't explain at the time.

In high school, Shell STEM NXplorers changed everything. I signed up immediately and found myself surrounded by people who shared the same drive to build and solve. My closest partners through that journey were Kevin and Nick. Together, we designed and built an automatic water filtration system prototype for the community at Sungai Sangan, addressing a real water shortage problem by filtering river water for domestic use. We were recognized as the most innovative team in our school. From there, we competed at the district, state, national, and even international level. Problem-solving stopped being a skill and became a part of who I am.

That's also where I met the Arduino, my first microcontroller. What started as simple circuits slowly grew into full IoT projects: a smart home app built on MIT App Inventor that controlled house lights via Bluetooth, then ESP modules, then Raspberry Pi, then full Wi-Fi based IoT systems. The community around it all made it even better.

Software crept in naturally. My first website was a dashboard for the S.D.A.S project, and from there, one project led to another. Frontend, backend, embedded systems, they stopped feeling like separate disciplines and started feeling like different tools in the same workshop.

Now I'm in my Electrical Engineering diploma, still competing, still collaborating, still building. Every project sharpens me. Every team I work with teaches me something. The journey hasn't been easy, but it's been mine, and it's shaped everything I am today.